Transracial Adoption: Have you been discriminated?
by Ron Huxley on November 13, 2009
November is National Adoption Month and one of it’s purposes is to open up discussion on important
adoption issues. One such issue is transracial adoption (a frequent occurrence) and the risks of discrimination that can result from it. Have you adopted a child of a different ethnicity? Have you or the child suffered from discrimination? Tweet us a reply or comment below.
| Research on transracial adoption has progressed over the past 35 years in methodological rigor and complexity. Overall, the current body of research on this issue supports three key conclusions: |
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1. Transracial adoption in itself does not produce psychological or social maladjustment problems in children.
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2. Transracially adopted children and their families face a range of challenges, and the manner in which parents handle them facilitates or hinders children’s development.
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3. Children in foster care come to adoption with many risk factors that pose challenges for healthy development. For these children, research points to the importance of adoptive placements with families who can address their individual issues and maximize their opportunity to develop to their fullest potential.
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| A key life skill for transracially adopted children is the ability to cope with discrimination |
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I am the black single mother of two white daughters-one adopted, one in the process of adoption. We live in fishbowl. People have been mean and rude. Thank goodness that my children have no clue of the ignorance around them.
Thank you so much for your honest reply. Your situation is not a common one that I have found and it illustrate the very problem of adoption and discrimination in the article. I hope your children never have a clue about the ignorance. You will have to do a lot of work to educate and buffer them as they get older. Feel free to share some of the things that have worked for you. Blessings!